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"How id asked as they climbed down to the third deck

"I don’t have any kind of map," Anne said "So we’ll have to check door-to-door, deck by deck, if ant to search everywhere"

Brigid huffed "If you were going to transport Elixir, where would you store it?"

Anne laughed "That’s a joke, right? Pallets can be stored--" She broke off when she heard a thuid and Anne both looked down

"No voices," Anne said after a few silent moments

"There’s no way to keep our steps silent on this bloody boat" Brigid started toward the stairs "Follow id was about half her size, but Anne didn’t argue She ell aware she wasn’t a fighter She followed Brigid down the stairs and opened the door to the lower deck

"Keys," Anne said, coid’s ar keys, but none of the doors so far have been locked"

"Let’s go back," Brigid said, cliht confuse whoever is down there Confused prey is better than expectant prey"

PILED in one of the equipment roo when they returned A feaking and confused, so Anne put theain Her

"Found the of keys

"Noe’ll see what they’re trying to hide," Anne said, walking out of the storage roo in the crew that had spiked her hunger, even though she’d fed before theyhungry She hadn’t in days The infusion of Brigid’s blood, combined hat she’d taken froued her

But Murphy had taken her blood earlier that evening, and she wondered if she was feeling the effects

"Anne?" Brigid waited for her in the hallway

"I’ came from behind a locked door No voices But definitely footsteps It was the only sound in the low-lit passage, despite the doors that stretched into darkness

"This fecking door…" Brigid had been trying each key without success, but there could easily have been forty on the ring Anne leaned against the opposite wall, watching her and keeping an eye out for anyone approaching She wondered how long it would take Carwyn and Murphy to check the bridge

"Shall I try?" she asked Brigid "Just to give your hands a rest"